[SeaBIOS] [PATCH] vgabios: implement AX=1120H..1124H functions

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini at redhat.com
Fri Jan 11 09:57:46 CET 2013


> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 01:41:36PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > These function only have to set INT 1Fh and INT 43h, and set
> > the BDA height + number of rows.
> > 
> > I could not find out whether AX=1120h should also set the character
> > height to 8.  I think not, because INT 43h might still point to
> > 14- or 16-pixel high characters and in this case INT 1Fh will not
> > be used at all.
> 
> Thanks.  Can you give a brief description on what these functions do
> and why it's useful to have them implemented?

They set the font for graphics mode.  It's useful because some DOS
programs use them. :)

Paolo



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